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Imanuel Marcus

Uwe Pries, a citizen of the so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR), took a vacation in Bulgaria in the 1980-s. While playing a regular tourist, the young man's intention was to flee to the West via Turkey. He wanted to get out of communist Germany and believed it would be easy to escape via Bulgaria.
He met a friend at the Black Sea coast,…

It was the moment when quite a few inhabitants were asking themselves whether they should finally have their winter tires installed. Bulgarians, along with expatriates in the country, did not have the faintest clue what was about to come, some five weeks later.

Adolf Eichmann, known as the architect of the Holocaust, planned the murder of six million Jews down to the last detail. He wrote schedules for freight trains on which the victims were transported to Auschwitz, estimated the number of Jews who could be killed in Nazi Germany's death camps in one day, and made sure the genocide could go ahead…

Who or what is tall, yellow, handsome, alluring, seductive? The answer: Sunflowers around the Bulgarian village of Novi Han, where the helianthus population is a lot highter that of human residents. The latter were a total of 2,659 last time they were counted.
Our reporter Imanuel Marcus had seen sexy sunflowers from the train. Now he went to…